WASHINGTON—Marlana Quigley, 28, of Rockledge, Florida, pled guilty today in the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to producing child pornography in 2007, and
distributing child pornography in 2009, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips.
The Honorable Ricardo Urbina scheduled the sentencing hearing for March 5, 2010. As a result
of her plea, Quigley must register as a sex offender and faces a maximum statutory prison
sentence of 30 years for producing child pornography and 20 years for distributing child
pornography. Quigley also faces mandatory minimum prison sentences of 15 years for producing
child pornography and 5 years for distributing it.

According to the government’s evidence, in 2007 or 2008, Quigley participated in the
creation of two pornographic photographs of her then-six-year-old son. Those photographs were
later transmitted to an individual who was in the District of Columbia at the time.

In June 2009, Quigley came to the attention of law enforcement when she chatted online
with an undercover law enforcement agent, who was posing as the individual who previously
received the photographs of Quigley’s son. During the chats, Quigley sent the undercover agent
at least 15 videos containing child pornography. The chats culminated in an agreement to meet
the undercover agent at a hotel in Florida, where Quigley and the undercover agent were to
engage in illegal sex with a seven-year-old boy whom the undercover agent was to bring with
him to Florida. Law enforcement arrested Quigley when she arrived at the Florida hotel for the
meeting.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood and the FBI/MPD Child
Exploitation Task Force. In February 2006, the Attorney General created project Safe
Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and
abuse. Led by U.S. Attorney’s Offices, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and
local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the
Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe
Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

In announcing the guilty plea, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillips commended the outstanding
investigative work of Detective Timothy Palchak, of the District of Columbia Metropolitan
Police Department, and Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crimes Against
Children Task Force. Mr. Phillips also praised the work of Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen J.
Spiegelhalter, who is prosecuting the case.